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Updated 4 hours ago David Camerons Repeated Lobbying Of Treasury And Bank Of England Revealed More questions raised over ex-PM and work for Greensill Capital as documents – some heavily redacted – are published. David Cameron personally lobbied the top civil servant at the Treasury on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital – but the full extent of their interactions remains a mystery as documents published were heavily redacted. Sir Tom Scholar, the permanent secr...

The Greensill lobbying row is hurting Boris Johnson with voters ahead of crunch elections next month, a new poll suggests.  An exclusive survey conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies for MailOnline found that a majority of the public have heard of or followed the revelations about David Camerons lobbying of the Government.  Some 18 per cent said they had followed a great deal of the story, 28 per cent said quite a bit and 30 per cent said some, while a quarter (24 per cent) said not at all...

YOUR report (“Quality state schools can phase out private rivals”, April 19) highlights the attainment gap in education. Poverty and educational inequality have co-existed for a long time. I started teaching at the age of 19 in a Fife mining community, where deprivation stared me in the face. I came across one wee girl whose attendance at school was very erratic. When I questioned her, she tearfully explained that she could not manage to school every day because she had to share a pai...

Failed finance company Greensill Capital “persistently” lobbied the Treasury to join the Government’s Covid support schemes, the head of the department has said. Giving evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee, permanent secretary Sir Tom Scholar said that David Cameron – who was acting as an adviser to the firm – had rung him directly on his official mobile phone. He said that the former prime minister – who had his number because he used to work for him when he was still ...

Failed finance company Greensill Capital “persistently” lobbied the Treasury to join the Government’s Covid support schemes, the head of the department has said. Giving evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee, permanent secretary Sir Tom Scholar said that David Cameron – who was acting as an adviser to the firm – had rung him directly on his official mobile phone. He said that the former prime minister – who had his number because he used to work for him when he was still ...

Ex-PM Cameron lobbied Treasury, Bank of England chiefs for Greensill Thu, 22nd Apr 2021 21:55 (Alliance News) - David Cameron personally lobbied the top civil servant at the Treasury and the deputy governor of the Bank of England on behalf of the failed finance firm Greensill Capital, it has been disclosed. Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary at the Treasury, revealed that the former prime minister had called him on his mobile phone as well as sending a series of texts. Separately, the Bank di...

Failed finance company Greensill Capital “persistently” lobbied the Treasury to join the Government’s Covid support schemes, the head of the department has said. Giving evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee, permanent secretary Sir Tom Scholar said that David Cameron – who was acting as an adviser to the firm – had rung him directly on his official mobile phone. He said that the former prime minister – who had his number because he used to work for him when he was still ...

The ex-PM sought the help of the Bank’s deputy governor after Greensill’s Covid finance proposal was dismissed by the Treasury

Civil servants’ second jobs to be scrutinised after Greensill saga Outcry over potential conflicts of interest mean rules governing officials with jobs outside the Civil Service could be changed 22 April 2021 • 9:30pm Simon Case discussed the second jobs rules in his weekly meeting with permanent secretaries of government departments Credit: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press The Telegraph can reveal. The message was communicated by Mr Case at a meeting he held with the top civil servants in government...

First published on Wed 21 Apr 2021 02.53 EDT Boris Johnson personally assured Sir James Dyson that the billionaire inventor’s employees would not have to pay extra tax if they came to the UK to make ventilators during the pandemic, it has been reported, in the latest case to raise concerns about lobbying. Dyson, an outspoken Brexiter who moved his firm to Singapore, initially wrote to the Treasury but after not receiving a reply exchanged text messages with the prime minister in which John...